When Do Firms Trade Patents?

Drawing on the Coase theorem, we consider a firm’s decision to transfer patent ownership to another firm in the markets for innovation. We deem that the proximity of a patent’s technology structure to that of a firm’s patent portfolio will generally result in greater marginal productivity of the patent, leading to enhanced prospects for the firm’s economic return. We thus predict that firms are more likely to trade patents when the technology structure of a patent is closer to the technology stock of a potential buyer compared with that of its original assignee. However, such a relationship will be weaker when a potential buyer and the original assignee have greater product-market overlap or when the assignee has superior technological capability. We test these predictions by employing a dyad-level analysis of transactional decisions during the 1987–2016 period on 40,110 U.S. patents assigned to 57 major biopharmaceutical firms. Our study provides novel insights on factors that facilitate or inhibit patent trade in the markets for innovation.

The technology of designing plastic windows and their transport from Poland since 1990

PVC window and door constructions are more and more popular in architecture. The profile manufacturing technology, structure and materials are constantly being modified. The Author analyses technological changes that have been implemented within the period of the last 20 years on the basis of Polish market experience, where the technology of PVC window and door production was hardly known, in relation to the largest producer and exporter of such products in the European Union at present. The Author also suggests that the area under investigation demands special care within material engineering, transport and ecology.

Nursing Activities Score: trajectory of the instrument from paper to cloud in a university hospital

ABSTRACT Objective: To report the process of organization and construction of an information technology structure named Nursing Activities Score (NAS) Cloud Technology®. Method: This project was based on the life cycle theory and has enabled the development of technological production through software engineering. Results: The NAS Cloud Technology® was developed for remote and collaborative access on a website hosted by Google Sites® and protected in a business environment by the certified security and data protection devices Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). In 2015, this system received more than 10.000 submissions/month, totaling 12 care units for critical patients covered by the information technology structure, circa 200 nurses per day involved in the collection and hundreds of daily submissions, integrating the complete transition from paper to cloud. Conclusion: The development of NAS Cloud Technology® system has enabled the use of technology as a facilitating means for the use of Nursing care data, providing tools for decision-making on the nursing personnel sizing required for the care demands in the inpatient care units. The potential of cloud structures stands out due to their possibility of innovation, as well as low-cost access and high replicability of the information system.

General Purpose Technology: The Blockchain Domain

Blockchain is an emerging evolutionary paradigm that is expected to revolutionize existing business models in many industries and impact the world economy and society. Its potential pervasiveness is increasingly drawing the interest of academics, practitioners, firms, financial institutions, and national governments, who define it as a general purpose technology (GPT). Although it may take considerable time to affirm a technology as general, in this phase of the evolution of the blockchain domain, to what extent can it be considered a GPT? By adopting a patent co-classifications analysis, this paper aims at disentangling the blockchain technology structure, evolution, and potential future trends. We analyzed blockchain international patents issued from 2008 to 2018. Results showed a proliferation of the inventive activity outputs and a significant increase in the diversification across different technology fields, capturing the blockchain’s GPT traits. Moreover, our patent measures detected technology dynamics related to ‘space for improvement’ and ‘pervasiveness’ that commonly characterize GPTs. Our study contributes to the technology innovation literature by uncovering the emergence and evolutionary path of a GPT, and our results provide an empirical basis on which managers can build technology-related decisions and systems to enable appropriate firms’ innovation strategies.

Big Data and Technology Evolution in the IoT Industry

The present study aims to better understand how and to what extent the different dimensions of Big Data can offer insights on technology evolution. By using a patent analytics perspective, in this paper, we introduce a novel approach based on co-words analysis using the abstracts of 170,279 European patents in the Internet of Things (IoT) field published from 2011 to 2019. In so doing, we map and visualize an industry’s technology structure, development, and trends, as well as disentangle the IoT technology conceptual structure, highlighting its core and boundary concepts. This is the first study that applies a decomposition framework to clarify the determinants of IoT inventions, showing relevant changes in the focus of IoT technology overtime. By shedding light on the evolutionary dynamics of the field, this research offers a valuable contribution to the technology innovation literature.

Value Chain and Industry 4.0: A Learning from Sritex Experience

The implementation of 'Industry 4.0' brings consequences to industry, market and economy, including Textile and Textile Products which is one of the leading sectors in Indonesian export products. The use of more efficient technologies into alternatives that need to be developed to encourage increased productivity and investment in the TPT industry sector. Sritex as one of the fastest growing textile companies has also implemented Industry 4.0. In this research, will be analyzed about the Sritex value chain, the application of Industry 4.0 on the Sritex value chain, and the impact of the application of the Industry 4.0. The type of this research is qualitative research, where data obtained through secondary data contained in company profile, annual report Sritex, and articles related to Sritex. The result of this research is the application of Industry 4.0 technology in the Sritex value chain affecting products and processes, and enabling increased efficiency and productivity of the company. Application of Industry 4.0 affects 3 (three) interactive components of the organization and is highly interdependent, among them technology, structure, and people along the Sritex value chain.